Hi Greg! I think it's way cool that you're supporting DMC with Comeau. Of
course, you should forget about those other compilers and concentrate on DMC
<g>.
I'll look into the problems you identified.
-Walter
"Greg Comeau" <comeau panix.com> wrote in message
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Hi Walter, LONG time no see/talk. Anyway, as you may be aware,
Comeau is in the process of supporting additional C backends for
Comeau C/C++. Till now, one needed VC++ in order to use Comeau
under MS-Windows, and we're finally getting around to changing that.
We have a number of backend in various stages of beta including
Borland, MinGW, lcc-win32 and DigitalMars. One thing I've come
across with dm is that it seems too strict with tentative definitions.
Here's an example:
static int j;
static int j = -99;
static int k;
extern int k = 99;
sc reports:
static int j = -99;
^
tendef.c(5) : Error: 'j' is already defined
extern int k = 99;
^
tendef.c(8) : Error: 'k' is already defined
And although that's true, C's tentative definitions rules
should accomodate it, and hence no diagnostic. Is there
an option to change this behavior?
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